Top Jeb Bush Adviser: Common Core Embrace Won't Hurt Him in GOP Primary

A top adviser to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to spin that Bush’s embrace of Common Core will not hurt him if he becomes a presidential candidate in 2016.

“Common Core issue much more of a paper tiger in GOP primaries than lazy CW assumes,” establishment Republican consultant Murphy recently tweeted after a longtime Georgia incumbent defeated a challenger who opposed Common Core in a local race.

Murphy frequently bashes conservatives, and Politico noted that “Jeb Bush has always been part of Murphy’s Holy Trinity of clients; the others are Mitt Romney, whose 2002 gubernatorial run Murphy advised, and Sen. John McCain.”

If Jeb Bush has a “kitchen cabinet,” Politicoreported that Murphy, “the Republican consultant and Meet the Press mainstay who’s taken up residence in Hollywood,” has a seat “at the head of the table.”

As Breitbart News has reported, Murphy repeatedly trashed conservatives during the 2012 election cycle, using his perch on programs like Meet The Press to label “conservative candidates who threatened Romney as the Republican versions of McGovern.”